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"Simon Singh, author of the bestsellers Fermat's Enigma, The Code Book, and The Big Bang, offers fascinating new insights into the celebrated television series The Simpsons: That the show drip-feeds morsels of number theory into the minds of its viewers--indeed, that there are so many mathematical r... Full description
Table of Contents:
- chapter 0.
- The truth about the Simpsons
- chapter 1.
- Bart the genius
- chapter 2.
- Are you [pi]-curious?
- chapter 3.
- Homer's last theorem
- chapter 4.
- The puzzle of mathematical humor
- examination I. chapter 5.
- Six degrees of separation
- chapter 6.
- Lisa Simpson, queen of stats and bats
- chapter 7.
- Galgebra and galgorithms
- examination II. chapter 8.
- A prime-time show
- chapter 9.
- To infintity and beyond
- chapter 10.
- The scarecrow theorem
- examination III. chapter 11.
- Freeze-frame mathematics
- chapter 12.
- Another slice of [pi]
- chapter 13.
- HomerĀ³
- examination IV. chapter 14.
- The birth of Futurama
- chapter 15.
- 1,729 and a romantic incident
- chapter 16.
- A one-sided story
- chapter 17.
- The Futurama Theorem
- examination V. E[pi]logue
- appendix 1.
- The sabermetrics approach in soccer
- appendix 2.
- Making sense of Euler's equation
- appendix 3.
- Dr. Keeler's recipe for the sum of squares
- appendix 4.
- Fractals and fractional dimensions
- appendix 5.
- Keeler's theorem.